Design For Your Audience

His design offers an address book directory where you can search or say anyone's name to find and travel to the floor of their residence.

It's a novel concept but you have to wonder: does this fit the type of clientele living in the world's tallest building.

As one of the world's elite, do I want my name and address broadcasted out to thousands of other residents? Maybe I'd want to maintain some ambiguity.

Let's look at this scenario:

Arguably this is completely exaggerated.

I'm sure residences could opt out of being listed in my imaginary building... It's fun to pretend.

My Solution

Having spent many a night in Atlantic City hotels, the solution seemed pretty straight forward to me. After all, a building that would
have 1,000 floors probably has a lot of elevator shafts and multiple entrances.

Why would a building that has 1,000 floors be any different than a building that has 150 floors.

Inside The Elevator

Let's analyze the design...

Providing Users With Feedback

When successfully entering the right keycard / floor number combo the user will see this:

When entering the wrong keycard / floor number combo the user will see this:

After entering the wrong keycard / floor number combo 5 times the card will become invalid.

Have a drunk night out with your buddies only to arrive home and forget what floor you live on?

There is a good chance you'll need to crawl to the security desk with proper identification to reset your keycard.

Waiting For The Elevator

Waiting for the elevator would also have the standard interface with a slight improvement.

Let's say I'm on the 501th floor.

What information would I want to know?

The interface would tell me:

Where the elevator is

Which direction it's headed

How minutes I will have to wait

Separating Residences and Business Offices

Surely, once you reach the residential section it's clear you belong in the building and you've had the credentials to get where you are.

Furthermore, residence owners can not access various floors occupied by companies and vice versa.

What if I'm cooking on floor 101 and I need to borrow a cup of sugar from my good neighbor Mila Kunis?

Don't worry, accessing other residential levels only requires a keycard when coming from the lobby.